Spring IDE 2.0M3 was released and the springframework.org site writes about the long-awaited Spring Webflow support. Spring IDE now includes graphical and XML editors for Spring WebFlow.
I believe that this major new feature hides 3 very important new features that IMHO programmers will find more useful, since people working with Spring spend more time editing Spring XML files than WebFlow XML files.
New Spring 2.0M3 features for Spring XML
- Spring IDE now integrates with class reference search (Shift+Ctrl+G). This means that the results of class reference search now also include Spring beans.
- The XML bean editor now supports renaming of bean ids (Refactor -> Rename bean element, or Alt+Shift+R)
- Spring IDE now participates in class refactorings (class rename, class move and property rename).
See the changelog of the 2.0M3 release for more information about changes and new features.
I am using the Spring IDE 2.0 milestones from the development update site and I am very satisfied with all the new features. The Spring IDE team is doing a great job (thanks guys) and I believe that the 2.0 release is going to be a huge step forward.
[...] We are definitely getting too little feedback on what users think, miss or dislike about Spring IDE. Therefore it is always nice to find some feedback – being good or bad – on the web: Refactoring and string identifiers is a more valid concern, but it isn’t really an issue for me, as I’m using the latest and greatest Spring IDE in Eclipse (really awesome plugin, btw). Yeah, I’m leaning on a tool to help me with this, but so is everyone else when they lean on their IDE to refactor Java code (try refactoring a method name with notepad if you don’t believe me). # I am using the Spring IDE 2.0 milestones from the development update site and I am very satisfied with all the new features. The Spring IDE team is doing a great job (thanks guys) and I believe that the 2.0 release is going to be a huge step forward. # [...]